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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How do I get the name of latest file? Post 302273079 by joeyg on Friday 2nd of January 2009 02:29:39 PM
Old 01-02-2009
Hammer & Screwdriver

answering #1
Code:
ls -ltr | tail -1

will give you all info on the most recent file in the current folder
Code:
ls -ltr | tail -1 | awk '{print $9}'

will give you just the filename
Code:
MYFILE=`ls -ltr | tail -1 | awk '{print $9}'`

will put that filename into $MYFILE

for #2
normally not best to cd then rm, better to
Code:
rm \dir\folder\*

or similar.
Seen too many examples where the cd failed, and then all files were deleted or some other command executed.
 

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